www.YourOpenSourceProject.cx is Free

The_Jazzman writes, "Nic.cx is now offering completely free domains to those with open-source projects. Check out FAQ question 2.16." CX is Christmas Island. They're running on free software and want to give back to the community. Serious inquiries only, please. Don't abuse their kindness.

Comments

Re:Great!

[fusion94]

We're already hosting open source projects for free.

http://sourceforge.net

Australian Net Censorship?

[fingal]

Free hosting of open source projects is "A Good Thing" and should be encouraged as much as possible, but one thought occurred to me which is that according to the government page:

" Christmas Island's full title is the Territory of Christmas Island. This is because it is an external territory of Australia. It is not autonomous, and falls under the authority of the Governor General of Australia and Australian Law."

Now, does that mean that all domains hosted under the .cx domain are subject to Australian regulations concerning content? Does the usage of a particular country's domain force you to abide by their rules, even if the servers are not physically located in the country in question?

The Horrors.... (and other random ideas)

[trims]

Darn. Now I'm feeling old.

Not to be a complete wet blanket, but am I the only one that thinks using domain names as resource locators is wrong? I appreciate what they're doing, but in the end, we're not helping things by propogating the idea that a domain name must be inherently attached to something (often, the ONLY thing) it's named after?

Almost all of our DNS problems come from the misguided attempt of people to solve the "location" problem via domain names. People, that's not what DNS is for, period, end of argument.

Instead of caving to the masses, why aren't we working towards the real solution, a Content Registration System. Yahoo and all the portals are the first step, but really, folks, they're pretty primitive. The web spiders can no longer index the web (it's too big, and changes too fast). Rather, shouldn't we have some central place for people to register their sites? By that, I mean the content of their sites? And perhaps, provide periodic updates of their content indexes?

Sorry for the rant, and I realize this isn't exactly on topic, but DNS is really creaking these days, and it's starting to hurt me. Plus, the current situation is just, well, sooooo unaesthetic.

-Erik